CSSP 2007
Olivier Bonami
olivier.bonami at paris4.sorbonne.fr
Tue Sep 11 12:44:03 UTC 2007
CSSP 2007
The Seventh Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris
October 4-6, 2007
ENS, Amphi Jules Ferry, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris
Invited speakers
Guglielmo Cinque (Venice)
Denis Creissels (Lyon 2)
Mary Dalrymple (Oxford)
Laurence R. Horn (Yale)
Chris Kennedy (Chicago)
Thematic session: The syntax and semantics of comparison
Thursday October 4
9h–9h15 Opening and Welcome
9h15–10h15 Invited talk: G. Cinque (Venice)
The prenominal origin of relative clauses
10h15–10h45 Nora Boneh & Ivy Sichel (Jerusalem)
Deconstructing possession
10h45–11h15 Coffee break
11h15–11h45 Lobke Aelbrecht (Brussels)
Dutch auxiliaries with a null VP proform complement
11h45–12h15 Franc Marusic & Rok Zaucer (Nova Gorica & Ottawa)
The dual source of the adjective-plus-indefinite-
pronoun construction
12h15–12h45 Elena Soare & Gianina Iordachioaia (Paris 8 & Tübingen)
Two Kinds of Event Plurals: Evidence from Romanian
Nominalizations
12h45–14h30 Lunch break
14h30–15h30 Invited talk: M. Darymple (Oxford)
Syntax and semantics of noun coordination
15h30–16h00 Markus Egg (Groningen)
Semantic construction for restrictive and non-
restrictive relative clause
16h00–16h30 Coffee break
16h30–17h Martin Schäfer (Leipzig)
Resolving scope mismatches in manner modification
17h–17h30 Jean-Pierre Koenig & Chief Liancheng (Buffalo)
Scalarity and state-changes in Mandarin, Hindi,
Tamil, and Thai
17h30–18h Sergei Tatevosov (Moscow)
Subevental structure and non-culmination
18h30 Reception
Friday October 5
9h15–10h15 Invited talk: D. Creissels (Lyon 2)
Remarks on split intransitivity
10h15–10h45 Irena Botwinik-Rotem & Anna Asbury (Tel Aviv & Utrecht)
Deriving the differences between Hungarian Ps
10h45–11h15 Coffee break
11h15–11h45 Ezra Keshet (MIT)
Infinitival Complements and Tense
11h45–12h15 Elena Castrovielo Miro (Frankfurt)
When manner adverbs cannot be interpreted as
predicate modifiers
12h15–12h45 Jinyoung Choi & Maribel Romero (Pennsylvania)
Rescuing existential Free Choice Items in episodic
Sentences
12h45–14h30 Lunch break
14h30–15h Luis Alonso-Ovalle (Boston)
Innocent Exclusion in an Alternative Semantics
15h–15h30 Yasuyuki Fukutomi (Fukushima)
The Internal Structure of Japanese Wh-Phrases
15h30-16h Marta Abrusan (MIT)
Contradiction and grammaticality: the case of
negative islands
16h00–16h30 Coffee break
16h30–17h Uli Sauerland (Berlin)
Pseudo-Sloppy Readings in Flat Binding
17h–17h30 Ana Arregui (Ottawa)
Past facts and the semantics of counterfactuals
17h30–18h Tatjana Scheffler (Pennsylvanie)
Relevance Conditionals - 'if' in Different Dimensions
Saturday October 6
9h15–10h15 Invited talk: L. Horn (Yale)
"I love me some him": The landscape of non-
argument datives
10h15–10h45 Nausicaa Pouscoulous & Bart Geurts (Nijmegen)
Experimental evidence against local implicatures
10h45–11h15 Coffee break
11h15–11h45 Scotts Fults (Maryland)
Representations of magnitude and Comparison
11h45–12h15 Carla Umbach (Osnabruck)
The role of German 'so' in equative comparison
12h15–12h45 Sveta Krasikova (Tübingen)
Comparison in Chinese
12h45–14h30 Lunch break
14h30–15h30 Invited talk: C. Kennedy (Chicago)
Standards of Comparison
15h30–16h00 Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam)
Comparatives and standards of precision
16h00–16h30 Coffee break
16h30–17h Gabriela Matos & Ana Brito (Lisboa & Porto)
Comparative clauses and cross linguistic variation.
17h–17h30 Jacques Jayez & Lucia Tovena (Lyon & Paris 7)
Hidden comparison and the meaning of 'presque'
Alternates
• Carlo Geraci & Francesca Panzeri (Milano): Comparative
Correlatives: the Case of Italian Sign Language and more...
• Jean-Pierre Koenig et al. (Buffalo): The micro-geography of verb
meanings
• Yusuke Kubota (Ohio): A Multi-Modal Combinatory Categorial Grammar
analysis of -te form complementation in Japanese
Contact: info at cssp.cnrs.fr
Website: http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2007/
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